Author Archives: skierpage

About skierpage

As you might guess, my site is mine. My Schema.org info is at /people/skierpage/.

skiing: RIP Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 1928-2024

Posted on 2024-07-14 by skierpage

RIP Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist and author! I was her ski instructor in 1999 when she came to Squaw Valley USA (now renamed Palisades Tahoe) age 70 for a celebrity ski “race.” The good ski instructors weren’t interested because … Continue reading →

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art: Charles Schulz and Christo

Posted on 2024-07-03 by skierpage

Charles Schulz is very much conventional decent middle-America (with a side of deep bitter existential distress underlying his Peanuts cartoons). Yet, as I learned on a return visit to his museum, it turns out “Sparky” was a big supporter of … Continue reading →

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software: sneaky “gnihctamsim” phishing

Posted on 2024-06-13 by skierpage

I got an e-mail asking for my bank details. From: Michael Doyle <ventas@farbiq.com.ar>To: undisclosed recipients:;Reply to: logistica.industrialparts@gmail.comSubject: Re: URGENT PROFORMA INVOICE Hello Dear, Greetings Our company has approved the attached purchase order. Please review the purchase order list, and return … Continue reading →

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music: Everyone Knows That, Radio Arabesque, other lostwave

Posted on 2024-06-07 by skierpage

Two commenters on this blog (here and here) randomly asked me about the song “Ulterior motives (everyone knows that)”. I though they were spammers, but it turns out there was a genuine Internet hunt for the song, forming its own … Continue reading →

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music: Brad Mehldau so smart so good

Posted on 2024-05-15 by skierpage

I love Brad Mehldau’s solo “Blackbird” the most of all the recent jazz versions, his album of Beatles is wonderful, his own work is all over the place (Jacob’s Ladder and Finding Gabriel are intense), and this interview is solid … Continue reading →

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cars: Rivian R1S is an excellent big EV

Posted on 2024-05-06 by skierpage

We rented a Rivian R1S EV on Turo so seven of us could tourist around for the day in comfort; it happened to be in Forest Green with light Ocean Coast interior that I would spec were I to need … Continue reading →

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art: Serra “Band” broke me

Posted on 2024-04-23 by skierpage

I unexpectedly met Richard Serra’s Band again, at LACMA; surely one of his greatest. I was sad at the great man’s[*] death in 2024, but walking around and through its spaces one more time left me collapsed and sobbing. Museum … Continue reading →

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web: sometimes it’s not a typo

Posted on 2024-02-15 by skierpage

Anomie & Bonhomie is an underrated Scritti Politti album, the rapping and scratching and turntable noises put some fans off. “Umm” is a phenomenal everything-but-the-kitchen-sink track, and “Tinseltown to the Boogiedown” just oozes style. Don’t call me Shirley, Lee Both … Continue reading →

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web: spammers copying my pages

Posted on 2024-02-07 by skierpage

Someone found my post about my legendary Herman-Miller Levity standing desk and added a comment asking about operating manuals for it. When I searched (using DuckDuckGo) for manuals Herman-Miller “Levity standing desk”, it returned my post, but also found bogus … Continue reading →

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music: questions and comments for Michael Omartian and Rick Beato